Albert sidney waitzfelder



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A. S. WAITZFELDBR.

DRESS PROTEOTB..

Patented Aug. 27, 1895.

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ALBERT SIDNEY WAITZFELDER, OF NEW' YORK, N. Y.

DRESS-PROTECTOR.

SPEG'EICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 545,257', dated August 27', i895.

Application tiled June 8,1895. Serial No. 552,078.

To Cal' whom, t 11mg/ concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT S. WAITzFnL-i DER, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dress-Protectors, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to dress-protectors, and has for its object to produce a trimming 1o more especially useful as a combined skirt distender and facing.

To this end my invention consists in the construction hereinafter set forth and claimed.

My invention will be understood by ref- IS erence to the accompanying drawings, in

which Figure l is a fragment of the bottom of a skirt, showing my improved trimming applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a broken-away detail face zo view of my improved trimming. Fig. 3 is a broken away detail of my improved trimming, showing the opposite side to that shown in Fig. 2. Fig. it is a section, on an enlarged scale, on line 4 4 of Fig. 2; and Fig. 5 is a section, on an enlarged scale, on line 5 5 of Fig.

l, showing the method of stitching thetrimming to the skirt.

In the drawings, c is a flat stiifener, prefern ably a metallic strip. This stiener is pro- 3o vided with a textile covering having an edging, shown in the present instance as an openwork covering h, provided with soutache edges c c'. This covering and edge are produced by braiding threads around the stiener b and around the under warps or cords l 2 3 4C and the enlarged under Warp or cord 5. Secured along the edge c of the stiftener by a row of stitches d lying in the depression c2 between the under wa-rps l and 2 is a facing-strip e. 4o This facingstrip is made of any suitable fac ing material, such as velveteen, and is carried across the rear face of the covered strip and doubled around the edge c of the strip and secured thereto by stitches d', which pass through the corded or soutache edge c and both thicknesses of the facing-strip and in the depression c3 between the under warps or cords a and 5, so thatin the bight; e thus formed in the facing-strip a cord 5 is located. 5o In Figs. l and 5 I have shown one method (No model.)

of using my trimming. In these figures A is a portion of a skirt along Whose lower edge the trimming is laid, velveteen face exposed, and secured in place. This securing is effected by means of lines of stitches e2 and e3, one of which e2 passes through the skirt A, the velveteen, and the edge c. The line or row of stitches e2 is laid in the depression c2, formed between the under warps or cords l and 2, in which depression the line of stitches d is also located. The line of stitches e3 passes through the skirt, the velveteen fabric, and the edge c' along the depression c4, formed between the under warps or cords 3 and t. lt will thus be seen that the depressions of the soutache edges form lines or guides for the placing of the stitches. Thus the line of stitches d', which is exposed and coincides with the depression c2, forms a guide for placing the stitches e2, and the depression c, which is likewise exposed, forms a guide for placing the line of stitches e3, the remaining depression c3 serving as a guide for the placing of the stitches d', which secure the velveteen to the edge c. lt will likewise be observed that the covering is quite thin along the lines of the depressions, so that it may readily be sewed through.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. Asanew article of manufacture, the herein described dress protector consisting of a iiat stiiener a, an open-Work covering h having projecting edges c c, a facing strip c embracing the said stiftener and its covering and Secured thereto, the said facing strip being formed into a bight at one edge of the stiffener and having a cord located in the bight.

2. As a new article of manufacture, the herein described dress-protector consisting of a flat stiener c provided with an openwork covering b having corded edges c consisting of cords l, 2, 3, 4, surrounded by braid threads and an enlarged cord 5 also surrounded by the braid threads, substantially as described.

ALBERT SIDNEY WAI'lZFELDER. Witnesses:

M. M. Kunsnnnnr, ARNOLD GRBLI. 

